why have tones of links suddenly appeared all over my site?

Hi All....

i woke up thismorning in a daze and had to do some admin work for a new mwmber on my site, and i notice a link (double blue line) under some text...then I noticed more and then more....

They were on nouns such as city names and some appear quite random. So I moused over them and a box popped up with a friggin link in it something called easy link or quick link or something like that... i was too tired to remember... but it freaked the crap out of me....

It wasn't like that when I went to bed..... Have the spam pixies been out at night weaving some kind of spam spell?????

Anyone know what this is? why it has happened? and more importantly - how to get rid?

Sounds exactly like inline ads. Some banner advertisers such as adbrite have a type of ad called inline ads that turn key words found on your page into a ad link.

Did you sign up with any new advertisers lately such as adbrite?

havn't signed up to anybody. The only ads on my site are my own banners. I will have to run a check. mybe it was attached to soemething else as addware or sometng.....

easy inline is the culprit... anyone got any ide how to get rid of this?

If it's easy inline, than from what i have found out, it's a browser add-on. Should be removable from add and remove programs.

http://www.easyinline.com/support

Thanks deano... got it... was something called yonkoo or similar... it has bucketloads of rubbish linking and ads tools running....

Amusingly... I checked the date and All I can see is that I picked this little nasty piece of adware up from FB...

All removed now : )

Wow, its so wrong they can do this... I guess all through legal loopholes as its browser based and not invasive of your site script! 

Were you only seeing it on your site or on others as well?